[16696] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.2.15: mathematica (case 133129)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Thu Feb 11 15:00:55 1999
To: barkai@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, 3partysw@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16682] in bugs" "[586] in 3partysw"
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:00:44 EST
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Thank you for reporting this. Apparently it is an SGI-specific
problem, and Wolfram (the Mathematica vendor) says:
The message "Internal error: FreeExpr called on live expr" means
that the Mathematica kernel is releasing memory that is still being
used. This should never happen under normal circumstances. If this
does happen, the kernel will probably crash.
Our developers are aware of this behavior, and a new MathKernel
executable has been compiled that should address this problem.
We'll contact them about getting the patched kernel and will let you
know when it has been installed. In the meantime, I'd suggest you try
your program on a Sun; I did a quick test and it seems to work (but
since it takes some time to complete, you should probably aim for an
Ultra rather than a Sparc).
Abby Fox
Academic Computing
